Revelation 6:10

Lord] RV 'Master.'

12-17. opening of the sixth seal the day of the wrath of God and of the Lamb is impending. The description is founded on the words of Christ: cp. Matthew 24:29. The prophets had expressed the awfulness of the 'day of the Lord,' by associating it with terrible catastrophes, and these are heaped together in this passage to create a picture of fear and ruin. The details are not to be literally understood: cp. Isaiah 2:10.; Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 50:3; Jeremiah 4:24; Amos 8:9; Nahum 1:5; Haggai 2:6; Luke 23:30; Hebrews 12:26.

The picture seems to be, as it were, foreshortened to the Apostle, so that he is not able to see the length of the interval which separates the Fall of Jerusalem from the conquest of the empire by Christianity, nor of the interval which separates that conquest from the Day of Judgment. So throughout the book, yet see the 'thousand years' of Revelation 20.